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The Yale School of Music is one of the nation's oldest
and most selective institutions for the graduate-level training of performers
and composers. The School offers offers the Doctor of Musical Arts, Master
of Musical Arts, and Master of Music degrees, the Artist Diploma, and the
Certificate in Performance. Our faculty, students, and guest artists offer
nearly three hundred public concerts every year, most of them free, to the
Yale and New Haven communities.
The Department of Music at Yale offers the Bachelor of Arts degree for students in Yale College, and the Ph. D. in musicology and music theory. At the graduate level, it is one of the premiere academic music departments in the world, in the number and quality of its distinguished graduates in musicology and music theory, in its selectivity, and in the prominence of its faculty.
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music admits students to the programs in Choral Conducting, Organ, and Voice: Early Music, Oratorio, and Chamber Ensemble. The School of Music grants their degrees; Institute students also receive a certificate. The Institute sponsors two choirs, Yale Camerata and Yale Schola Cantorum. As an interdisciplinary center and major arts presenter in greater New Haven, the Institute offers a full schedule of concerts, drama, art exhibitions, films, literary readings, lectures, and multimedia events during the year.
Committed to the acquisition, preservation, and interpretation of musical instruments from different cultures the world over, the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments provides opportunities for scholars, performers, instrument makers and enthusiasts to learn about the history, design, and acoustics of music-making artifacts from antiquity to the present. It mounts special exhibits, offers lecture-demonstrations and gallery talks, and presents an annual series of concerts on restored examples from its holdings.
· The Yale Bands
The Yale Bands have a long history of elegance and insolence. Records show that the first appearance of a band at Yale was in the year 1775, when Yale sophomore Noah Webster and a militia band of Yale students accompanied George Washington to Cambridge, Massachusetts. They found it "not to their liking" and returned one week later. From those humble roots have sprung the Yale Concert Band, the Yale Jazz Ensemble, and the incomparable Yale Precision Marching Band
· Yale Glee Club
Yale's oldest musical organization and principal undergraduate chorus, the Glee Club is an 80-voice ensemble of women and men performing a broad spectrum of great choral music, from choral orchestral masterpieces to newly commissioned works, and from world folk music to traditional Yale songs. One of the most traveled choruses in the world, the Yale Glee Club has performed in every major city in the United States and on six out of seven continents.
· Yale Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1965 by a small group of Yale students who sensed the need for an ensemble devoted to the performance of orchestral repertoire. Thirty-nine years later, Yale Symphony enjoys a reputation as one of the premiere undergraduate orchestras in the United States, and performs an average of six concerts a year. In addition, the YSO has achieved a place in Yale lore with its annual Halloween Show – in full costume at midnight – to an audience of thousands at Woolsey Hall.
The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library is located within Sterling Memorial Library, and contains approximately 80,000 scores and parts for performance and study, 55,000 books about music, and thousands of recordings, pieces of sheet music, photographs, and other archival materials. The collection has been designed for scholarly study and reference, as well as to meet the needs of performing musicians. In addition, the library presents numerous public events and exhibits.
The Yale Summer School of Music offers intensive chamber music coaching and performance opportunities with renowned artist-faculty and resident and guest ensembles. Situated in the bucolic town of Norfolk amid the hills of northwestern Connecticut, the historic and beautiful Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate provides an intimate environment for summer study. The renowned Norfolk Chamber Music Festival offers superb concerts in the historic Music Shed by resident faculty, guest artists, and program fellows.